Brooklyn Orchids

Last Day for Green Thumb Club Special Offer!

June 9, 2013 2 Comments

Have you taken advantage of the Brooklyn Orchids special offer on the Orchids Made Easy Green Thumb Club membership yet? There’s not much time left! The coupon code BKLN13 expires TONIGHT (June 9) at midnight, so you’ve got the rest of the day to sign up and get 50% off of 12 months worth of valuable orchid care lessons. The regular price is $19.95/month but my code is good for $9.95/month for the whole year!

I’ve contributed to these lessons as a co-author, so I can personally vouch for this program. Here’s a recap of what you get when you sign up:

Every week, you’ll receive a new and exciting orchid lesson delivered via email. You’ll access the lesson by following a special private link to a password-protected website. Each lesson covers a fun orchid care topic in step-by-step detail, complete with photos, videos, diagrams and more.

Topics include:

Greenhouse growing
Making your own fertilizer
Repotting
Drying and pressing your flowers
Growing orchids under lights
How to grow on mounts, stumps, & trees
Pairing your orchids with their natural “buddies” like African violets, cacti, and carnivorous plants
Diagnosing and treating practically every possible pest and disease
Plus lessons on how to care for ALL of the most popular varieties including: Phals, Cattleyas, Cymbidiums, Dendrobiums, Oncidiums, Vandas, Miltoniopsis, Masdevallias, Brassias, Odontoglossum, Epidendrums, Zygopetalums, and many more.

Click here to sign up for the Green Thumb Club and don’t forget to enter coupon code BKLN13 when you check out! You really don’t want to miss out on this. 🙂

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Green Thumb Club: Special Offer for Brooklyn Orchids Readers!

June 4, 2013 1 Comment

I have some exciting news for you, readers! I’ve been working with Ryan and Laura of Orchids Made Easy on an orchid training program they’ve created called the Green Thumb Club. This Club is a one-of-a-kind orchid program that delivers one year’s worth of orchid care lessons directly to you for just under $20/month…unless you take advantage of the Brooklyn Orchids special offer that I’m about to tell you about. 🙂

What’s my role in all of this? I’m a contributing author of orchid lessons—this is the fun project that I’ve been wanting to share with you! So for a limited time, Brooklyn Orchids readers can sign up for the Green Thumb Club for just $9.95/month for the whole year by using the coupon code “BKLN13”—this gets you 50% off the regular price of $19.95/month. Note that this special offer is only available through Sunday, June 9 at 11:59pm so you’ll want to jump on it while you can.

What do you get when you join the Green Thumb Club? Every week, you’ll receive a new and exciting orchid lesson delivered to your inbox via a special private link. You’ll access the lesson by following the link to a password-protected website. Each lesson covers a fun and exciting topic about orchid care in step-by-step detail, complete with photos, videos, diagrams and more. The lessons cover everything you need to know to become a master when it comes to growing orchids!

Topics include:

Greenhouse growing
Making your own fertilizer
Repotting
Drying and pressing your flowers
Growing orchids under lights
How to grow on mounts, stumps, & trees
Pairing your orchids with their natural “buddies” like African Violets and certain types of Cacti
Diagnosing and treating practically every possible pest and disease
Plus lessons on how to care for ALL of the most popular varieties including: Phals, Cattleyas, Cymbidiums, Dendrobiums, Oncidiums, Vandas, Miltoniopsis, Masdevallias, Brassias, Odontoglossum, Epidendrums, Zygopetalums, and so much more…

Less than $10 a month for 12 months worth of detailed information on how to care for orchids? It really is an amazing deal—if you do the math, it comes out to less than $2.50 per lesson! To sign up for the Green Thumb Club, click here and don’t forget to enter coupon code BKLN13 when you check out.

Thank you in advance for your support of this great program. You won’t regret it! 🙂

My Orchid Garden, Orchid Care

Brooklyn Orchids Featured on Orchids Made Easy

May 28, 2013 5 Comments

The wonderful Ryan and Laura over at Orchids Made Easy asked me for an interview (awww, shucks) about how I got into orchids and my blog that you’re reading right now. Of course I agreed to the interview! Read the interview here to find out more about my foray into the world of orchids and how I got started blogging about them. I talk about my favorite orchid, and offer up what in my humble opinion are a couple of the best tips for orchid growing.

I’d like to say a big thank you to Ryan and Laura for featuring me and my blog! It’s so great to know that people are actually visiting my site and learning from it in the process. Anything to help out our fellow orchid lovers. 🙂

Oh — and while I’m at it: happy summer to everyone! Hope you all got to enjoy the long weekend and eat some tasty grilled foodstuffs…I know I sure did.

How-To, Orchid Beginner Tips

Keikis: What They Are and What to Do with Them

May 23, 2013 16 Comments

Say you have a lovely Phalaenopsis orchid and one day you notice that there’s something growing off of its spike, something that doesn’t look like a flower bud. Maybe it looks like a new leaf or two (like in the photo to the right)…and after awhile what looks like a root starts to appear. What is this growth? Is it normal, and what should you do with it?

I get a lot of questions like these from readers, so it’s well past time to dedicate a blog post to the topic. The growth I described above is a baby orchid or plantlet, known to orchid lovers as a “keiki” (the Hawaiian term for “the little one”). Keikis are clones of the “mother” plant and can either be left attached to the mother or removed and potted individually once they have grown large enough. Keikis can grow off of the spike or stem of the mother, or they can begun to sprout from the plant base, in which case they are referred to as basal keikis (I currently have two of these developing on one Phal).

My Orchid Garden

Orchids in Jamaica, An Oncidium in Spike, and Other Developments

May 17, 2013 7 Comments

Well, look at that…it’s been about two months since I last updated my blog. Sorry about that, folks! I’ve been hard at work on another project that I will hopefully be able to share with you soon. During this unplanned blog hiatus, [BIG ANNOUCEMENT!] I got engaged, then went to Jamaica for what had become an engagement celebration vacation with my ~~boyfriend~~ fiancé. We stayed at The Jewel Dunn’s River in Ocho Rios, an all-inclusive resort, and we had a really amazing time. On our second day there I noticed a beautiful orchid in bloom attached to the trunk of a palm tree on the resort grounds, and once I saw that one I started seeing them everywhere!

New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Shows

The Orchid Show 2013: My Visit to NYBG

March 15, 2013 3 Comments

Yesterday marked my fifth anniversary of falling in love with orchids, as I attended the New York Botanical Garden’s 11th annual Orchid Show! The first Orchid Show I went to was in 2009 and I was just awestruck, so I celebrate the beginning of my orchid obsession every year by attending a new show.

This year’s show doesn’t have a theme like past shows, but lack of a theme doesn’t mean a lack of beauty. Francisca P. Coelho, Vice President for Glasshouses and Exhibitions at the Garden, designed the Orchid Show, incorporating many of the garden’s Hurricane Sandy-damaged trees.

A couple tips for those of you planning to visit the Orchid Show: 1) Look up as you browse! The garden has a wide variety of orchids in their regular collection, and you can find them attached way up high to tree branches throughout the conservatory. Many of them are in bloom right now, so you’ll be rewarded with little (in some cases, nearly microscopic) treasures by scanning the branches above you. 2) Sniff the flowers! This year’s show seems to have an especially large contingent of fragrant orchids, and there are some really amazing scents everywhere you turn.

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